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Our Mission & Values

Our Mission

Our mission is to encourage young people to volunteer overseas for worthwhile work in developing countries. We expect that doing this kind of voluntary work will in time become the norm. As more and more people join us, we aim to create a multi-national community with a passion to serve, to learn, to understand, to teach, to inspire and to be inspired.

Our Values

CONTRIBUTION: We believe in helping where help is needed, even in far-away places, whether it is needed by an individual, an organisation, an environmental project or an entire community; we respond to need as effectively as we can with our abilities and our resources.

COMPANY: We believe that the most efficient way to organise people and resources for our activities is through a for-profit company; it allows for the pooling of resources and the dispersal of risk, and it encourages innovation.

COMMUNITY: We believe that our colleagues, our volunteers and our partners, who make up our multi-national community, determine our success. We recognise that each individual has a unique ability to contribute, which we must nurture.

CULTURE: We believe in the value of cultural exchange between young people from different communities; such exchange helps to create a world with greater mutual respect and understanding.

Some of the media Projects Abroad has featured in: The Times, The Guardian, EL DIARIO, San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek, Ok! Magazine, The New York Times, The Vancouver Sun, ELLE, BBC, CNBC, Travel and Leisure, BusinessWeek, The Irish Times